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What is meant by the "partition" of India in 1947?

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The partition of India was the process of dividing India into two parts: today's India and today's Pakistan and Bangladesh (Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan for a time).

This happened because the Indian Muslims wanted to have their own country where they would not be a minority
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